Betfair.com Poker Masters of Europe attracts top players

A field that includes champions from the European Poker Tour, World Poker Tour, Aussie Millions, Betfair Asian Poker Tour and the World Series of Poker will do battle this weekend in a bid to decide the Betfair.com Poker Masters of Europe.

The 36-player invite-only event begins this Friday 11th May at Riverside Studios in London in front of a live audience. A series of six heats will feed into the final table on Monday 14th May where the winner will take home roughly $120,000 from a prize pool of $300,000.

Amongst the field, which includes six online qualifiers from Betfair Poker, are WPT winners Tony G, Juha Helppi and Roland de Wolfe (also an EPT champion).

They will contend against EPT winners Ram Vaswani and Vicky Coren as well as one of the most respected figures in British poker, WSOP bracelet holder Willie “The Diceman” Tann.

Each player will have their heart rate monitored. But poker fans will have to wait until the SKY Sports release at the end of May to see whether Tony G’s sharp tongue can set pulses racing.

Also challenging for the title are BadBeat’s Marc Goodwin and Betfair’s Thomas “Buzzer” Bihl who will hold free Masterclass seminars for the live audience on Saturday 12th May aimed at intermediate to advanced players.

Betfair betting markets for the event put Ram Vaswani as the favourite at 14-1. Roland de Wolfe, Roy Brindley, Juha Helppi, Tony Bloom and Tony G are currently available to back at 19-1.

Seats in the live audience are available until Thursday evening. Please contact pokerevents@betfair.com to register your interest